Bad Boy vocabulary

She sang right in the middle of every pitch and had a lovely _____.

• insolence

• vibrato

• disdain

• musing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The argument can only be settled fairly if an uninvolved person is called in to _______ the quarrel.

• mediate

• ostracize

• supplant

• integrate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

In most places, summer brings a much-needed ______ to teachers and students alike.

• toil

• predicament

• recuperating

• respite

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

A tranquilizer dart will usually effectively ______ even the most violent animals.

• convolute

• impose

• stultify

• berate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Former professional athletes will become a _______for a sports network because they know how to explain what the players are doing during the sport

• accouterment

• commentator

• interim

• respite

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

I was _____ when my mom pulled out the most embarrassing pictures to show the person I had just started dating.

• subdued

• decrepit

• truant

• mortified

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

I would rather you find your own voice and not _____ your favorite writer.

• berate

• emulate

• articulate

• accumulate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Walter had a difficult time with ______, so he saw a speech therapist to help him with correct and clear pronunciation.

• articulate

• emulation

• articulation

• ostracizing

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

When I become nervous, I become rather _________.

• inarticulate

• permeated

• ostracized

• stultify

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Although Janice spoke slowly, I found it difficult to understand her _____ story.

• imposing

• ethereal

• convoluted

• adversarial

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4